TC 401 Exam

• -user generated
• -peer production
• -blogging
• -tagging
• -customer ratings & reviews
• -building communities
• -sharing & repruposing content

- to make it harder for sites to sell or distribute pirated copyrighted material .

any communicative transaction that occurs through the use of two or more networked computers===text messaging

• -synchronicity
• -persistence/recordability/archivabling
• -anonmity/pseudonmity
• -replicability (copy/paste)
• -search ability
• -scalability

• Focus on video conferencing
• Classified media according to how (important) communication partners are to each other.

How much info a communication medium can successfully transfer.

• Rich Mediums
• -F2f
• -Video Conferencing
• -Telephone
• -2 way radio
• -Written, Addressed Document
• -Un addressed Documents
• Leaner Mediums

• 1) # of cue systems available
• 2) availability of immediate feedback
• 3) possibility of message personalization
• 4) Style of language

• CMC has to take the place of F2F in certain cases.
• Ex: emoji-icons

• -examines effect of CMC on groups
• -attend to cues about group affiliation & use the basis for relating & forming

• -online relationships can be more socially desirable than we tend to experience in parallel F2F
• -Focuses on sender, receiver, channel & feedback effects

• -tendency for ppl to act differently online.
• Reasons
• 1) Dissociative anonmity
• 2) Invisibility
• 3) Asynchronicity
• 4) Solipsitic Introjection
• 5) Dissociative Imagination
• 6) Minimization of authority

• Offline: clothes, hair, body modifications
• Online: myspace profile, emails, choice of usernames

• -socially constructed: we conceive identiity based on imput from others
• - Different environments can cause various aspectes of our identity to become more salient.

• -gives ppl the chance to express multiple & often unexplored
• aspects of the self.

Warranting value how safe a piece of information is from manipulation info from others is valued higher than info from. i.e. letters of rec

• -neutral ground
• -leveler
• -conversation is main activity
• -accessibility & accommadtion
• -mood is playful

• -shared interest
• -no time or space boundaries
• -honest & open communication
• -no time/ space boundaries
• -interdependence / mutual support

• Peripheral (Lurker)
• Inbound (Novice)
• Insider (Regular)
• Boundary (Leader)
• Outbound (Elder)

• Utopian
• -liberating
• -unity

• Distopian
• -escaping real world problems non-authentic

• Bridging: Large, weak networks
• Bonding: Strong Ties

• -Adventure/ Role-playing
• -Strategey
• -Casual/ Social

• 1) Challenging activity that requires skill
• 2) Action & Awareness coming together
• 3) Clear goals
• 4) Direct, immediate feedback
• 5) Concentration of task at hand
• 6) Sense of control
• 7) Loss of self-consciousness
• 8) Altere sense of time

• -Achievers
• -Explorers
• -Socializers
• -Killers

• -Virtual Economic
• -Professional gaming (e sports)
• -Game addiction facilities
• -Identity issues
• -Pop culture

Ppl conform to the expected behaviors of the avatar.

• -seek interaction w/ existing friends
• -friends request them to play

• Initiating
• Maintaing
• Enhancing

Find new people & becoming Facebook friends (common interest)

Keeping connected w/ existing acquaintances ( low communication cost)

Sum of behaviors individuals engage into either control or manipulate oberver attributes of them

totals actual & perceived benefits dervived from interaction w/ your social network

when ppl meet, they try to reduce uncertainity about other person through disclosures

relational intimacy increases as partners share more intimate information w/ each other

• 1) Initiating
• 2) Experimenting
• 3) Intensyfing
• 4) Integrating
• 5) Bonding

• 1)Positivity
• 2) Openness
• 3) Assurances
• 4) Sharing Task
• 5) Networks

• 1) Asynchronous
• 2) Messages Can be widely disseminated
• 3) Systems fost participation, feedback & interactivity
• 4) Systems can be embed multimedia sources from other sites

• Reduced Cues Environment
• Asynchronicity
• Shared Contextual Expectant

• -selective self-presentation
• -having to " tell" what you might rather show
• -ambiguity introduced by the telling process

-users have more time to contemplate their messages & more cognitive resources to do so.

The profile constitutes a promise made to an imagined audience that future F2F interaction will take place with someone who does not differ fundamentally from the person represented by the profile.

individuals self-image differs from others perceptions of that person.

intentional control of information in a technology mediated message to create a false belief in the receiver of the message : text & images

falsly portraying oneself or an organization.

content of messages are deceptive.

Removing Critical info

obscuring critical info

distracting victim

assuming anothers identity

making up information

describing transaction to intentionally mislead.

convincing victime s/he is the deciver

• -use more words
• -more expressive
• -fewwer self-references
• -more informal
• -make typological errors

• -Recordability
• -Persistance of info
• -Anticipation of future offline interaction
• -Warranting
• -Publicness

• -synchronicity
• -recordability
• -whether participants are distributed.